British low-cost airline group EasyJet has revealed on Tuesday that it “has been the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source” and that it has suffered a data breach.
The result? Email address and travel details of approximately 9 million customers and credit card details (including CVV numbers) of 2,208 customers were accessed.
How did the attackers manage to breach EasyJet?
EasyJet did not share in their official notice about the incident when it happened, but told the BBC that they became aware of it in January and that the customers whose credit card details were stolen were notified in early April.
They also did not say how the attackers got in, only that it seems that they were after “company intellectual property.” Grabbing customer info might have been an aftertho ..
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